Scott Reichner

The news this week is that Corey Stapleton is jumping ship to the US House race after receiving word from Steve Daines, or a Daines team member, that Daines will be running for Senate. Stapleton had declared his status as a Senate candidate earlier in…

Now that Schweitzer will be on the homestead and not the hustings, what will the field of candidates look like in 2014, for either Senate or House, assuming Steve Daines runs for Senate? Anyone looking for a ticket to DC needs to get in the…

Brian Schweitzer surprised the state of Montana today when he announced that he would not be running for Senate. It’s surprising because he was such a heavy favorite. But it’s unsurprising too, because he has long maligned the US Senate as a do-nothing institution that…

by Cowgirl If you want to appreciate the failure that marks GOP ideas, consider the latest from Wendy Warburton. This TEA Party Republican has brought back a bill to legalize discrimination in insurance pricing that has previous failed to pass no fewer than 22 times….

by Cowgirl Here it is: http://mtjungleprimary.com/ This is place to go for information on HB-436, the nefarious Republican attempt to inflict a top two primary on Montana. Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Bigfork, has introduced this bill to change our election laws so that libertarians can no longer…

by Cowgirl It might surprise you to hear this, but right-wing Republicans actually agree with President Obama that America needs a radical change in our gun laws. It’s just that they have a different idea of what those changes should be. In the Montana Legislature…

by Cowgirl Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Bigfork, has introduced a bill to change our election laws so that libertarians can no longer gum up the works for the GOP. This is an effort that we all presumed would be made this session, given the humiliation suffered…

by Cowgirl Corey Stapleton, former state senator from Billings, has thrown his hat into the ring for US Senate, for the right to challenge Max Baucus in the race. Stapleton turned in a fair effort for Governor in 2012, but ran out of steam…

Montana GOP Rep. Scott Reichner of Big Fork has put forward what can best be described as a Republican solution to the problem of “dark money” in politics. Dark money is the anonymous, unlimited and unregulated money, usually of corporate origin, that has helped the…

Today, new evidence of the extent to which Montana’s legislature has been corrupted by out-of-state corporate interests has come to light. Citizen advocates have released documents showing that several Montana legislators received all-expense paid junkets where they were wined and dined by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)….

Republican candidates across the county have tried to distance themselves from Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., who believes that rape victims should be forced to give birth and said that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that…

In an email to supporters on September 9th, in which he talked about “starting to feel the chill of fall in the air” and questioned “Where did summer go?,” former Congressman Rick Hill said “In the coming weeks you’ll see my campaign name a running…